What Is Cinema?

Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and others do that can't be expressed in words - but only in cinema.

Top Cast

Chantal AkermanSelf

Robert AltmanSelf

David LynchSelf

Costa-GavrasSelf

Robert BressonSelf

Rob EpsteinSelf

Abbas KiarostamiSelf

Mike LeighSelf